How to Sell Your Books with webuybooks.co.uk
21.08.2023 - 11:43
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/ Emma Doughty
Did you get new books for Christmas? I did. I got two lovely new books, a coffee table book on Mars (it has maps!) and an unofficial history of NASA mission patches (which came with stickers…).
Books are brilliant. Easily portable, they can instantly transport you to another place and time, fill your brain with knowledge and even make you a nicer person. I have about 600, a combination of old fiction favourites, gardening and botany books, space books and cookery books. I could probably use my unread pile as a space elevator.
Sadly, most bookworms don’t live in huge libraries, and book storage can become a problem. We have a tendency to become like dragons guarding a hoard, and it can be painful to get rid of books, but I like to reframe that as setting some loose so that they can find their forever home. In the past, I have donated a lot of books to charity, but my current location (and the pandemic) make that more difficult. My preference for more unusual topics also means that a book from my library may not easily find a new friend from those browsing a charity shop shelf.
A couple of years ago, I discovered webuybooks.co.uk. The name is pretty self-explanatory – they’ll buy the books you no longer have space for. Their online sales arm can then match them with a new owner who’s looking for that exact book and may be able to give it a forever home.
Their process is really easy. Their app comes with a barcode scanner, and you scan your book and it pops up how much they’ll pay you for it. (Some they don’t want at all, which is very very sad.) Once you’ve scanned your discard pile into your basket, you checkout exactly the same as you would if you were online shopping. But you’re buying instead of selling, and you pack up
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